About the Initiative

Misk Academy (part of the Misk Foundation) in partnership with General Assembly is launching a bold initiative to build Saudi Arabia’s workforce of the future through robust training in coding, data, design, digital marketing and product management.

About the Courses

The courses offered through Misk Academy (part of the Misk Foundation) in partnership with General Assembly fall into two main categories and types of learning.

Immersive (full-time) courses are designed to help you change your career and learn a new skill set. At the end of the course you will have all the skills and experiences needed to gain employment in a Junior level role in your chosen field.

Part-time and Accelerated courses are designed to help you level up in your current career. They will give you the practical knowledge needed to help supplement your current skill set.

Eligibility, 2019

General Qualifications

Minimum age of 18 as of course start date.

Saudi National

Excellent spoken and written English proficiency.

Apple laptop preferred

Pass the admissions process (varies depending on program)

Students may only apply to 1 General Assembly course at the same time.

Admission preference will be given to individuals with career plans that involve the skills from the class.

Program-Specific Qualifications

Immersive programs

Commitment to 40 hours/week (full-time) of in-person learning, over 10 or 12 weeks (dependent on course)

Commitment to 30-40 hours of online learning before the course starts

Accelerator programs

Commitment to 40 hours/week of in-person learning, over 2 weeks

Commitment to 6-10 hours of online learning before the course starts

Part-time programs

Commitment to 4-6 hours/week of in-person learning, over 10 weeks

Commitment to 6-10 hours of online learning before the course starts

Courses Details, 2019

Web Development Immersive January

Course Type

Full-time course for career changers

Application Deadline

Applications Close December 6

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Web Development Immersive January

Course Overview

In this 12-week course, students become junior-level web developers by building rails applications, developing their own ideas into functional web applications, creating a portfolio of their work, and embarking on the career path of a web developer. This course will give aspiring Ruby on Rails developers the confidence to build projects from start to finish at a professional level. The focus of this course is learning to program in Ruby and creating Rails web applications. However, WDI as a whole focuses on teaching students how to be professional full-stack web developers capable of building a scalable product with a team of developers. Therefore, in addition to teaching Rails, this course also includes lessons on computer science, JavaScript, command line basics, Git, GitHub, and database schemas.

User Experience Design Immersive

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User Experience Design Immersive

Course Overview

A User Experience Designer is able to think outside the realm of what’s “possible” in order to create experiences that address the needs of customers in a way that brings them joy and delight. This requires a great deal of empathy, imagination, and skill.

This 10-week Immersive course will prepare individuals to think like designers and approach problems creatively in order to design the next generation of great apps, websites, and digital products.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

Identify the most effective methods of user research for any given project and how to implement it

Organize vast amounts of information, from articles in a magazine to items on an ecommerce site, in a way that makes sense to users

Design the behavior of digital products in order to support user goals

Communicate use of a digital tool through visual design to insure that users of that product can effectively interact with it

Data Science Immersive

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Data Science Immersive

Course Overview

In this 12-week, full-time course students analyze massive data sets, and predict what happens next through predictive modeling and pattern recognition. Students create a polished portfolio of work that showcases their ability to create machine-learned insights in a way that is impactful to key stakeholders.

This course helps students to make a career change and prepare for full-time roles as Data Scientists, Data Analysts, or other roles that require advanced work with data.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

Collect, extract, query, clean, and aggregate data for analysis

Perform visual and statistical analysis on data using Python and its associated libraries and tools

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Data Analytics Accelerated

Course Overview

In this 2-week accelerated course students will learn how to use excel, SQL and Tableau to analyze and make sense of data sets. By the end of this course students are able to make sense of data sets and tell compelling, data-driven stories through data visualization tools to key stakeholders.

Who is this course for?

This course is open to beginners and recent graduates but it's helpful for students to have some Excel experience.

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Data Analytics Accelerated

Course Overview

In this 2-week accelerated course students will learn how to use excel, SQL and Tableau to analyze and make sense of data sets. By the end of this course students are able to make sense of data sets and tell compelling, data-driven stories through data visualization tools to key stakeholders.

Who is this course for?

This course is open to beginners and recent graduates but it's helpful for students to have some Excel experience.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

Utilize statistics to describe a dataset and validate the analysis of data

Clean datasets using Excel’s functionality

Analyze datasets using visualizations and pivot tables in Excel

Create basic SQL queries from databases

Create a local SQL database

Import data into a local SQL database

Create complex queries using joins and other advanced SQL functionality

Aggregate and analyze data using efficiency SQL queries

Build completing and clear visualizations in Tableau

Deliver effective presentations with data

Cost

Free to those who are admitted and adhere to student code of conduct throughout course.

Data Analytics Accelerated - Jeddah

Course Overview

In this 2 - week accelerated course students will learn how to analyze massive data sets using Python and statistical modelling. At the end of this course students will be able to conduct analyses such as predicting user behavior on their website, making decisions, or the best way to classify content. Students will learn how to build the code necessary to be able to make these predictions and create models.

Who is this course for?

Students who want to learn alongside their current work

Data Analysts: Level up their analysis by using a powerful programming language (Python)

BI Managers: Work better with your data scientists by understanding more about their work. Advocate for your team by clearly communicating what your analytics teams are doing

Software Engineers: Complement your programming skills by learning how to use the techniques of data scientists.

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Digital Marketing Accelerated

Course Overview

In this 2-week accelerated course students will learn how to develop strong, customer-centric digital marketing strategies; execute them across key digital channels (social, search, email, web, advertising).; and evaluate and optimize them using Google Analytics, A/B testing, etc.

This course equips you with the skills you need to be a productive and effective marketer in the 21st century. You'll learn current tools and best practices you can use to promote a brand, drive sales leads, and increase customer engagement.

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Front-End Web Development Part-time

Course Overview

This 10-week part-time evening course is designed to provide an introduction to the field of Front-End Web Development; participants will graduate with the coding fundamentals to build web pages from scratch and a portfolio piece to match.

In this course, students will learn how to create a basic website with HTML and CSS. Then, students progress to programming with Javascript and JQuery basics. Finally, students build an interactive website that showcases their learning and skill. The course covers such popular front-end development tools as Git, GitHub, text editors, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and Responsive web design.

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JavaScript Development Part-Time

Course Overview

This 10-week part-time evening course is designed to teach all of the applications of the most popular programming language in the world - JavaScript. Using JavaScript, you'll be able to add interactivity to websites, integrate with third-party APIs, and create rich web applications that persist user data. You'll graduate with a broad application of your development skills.

This course focuses on the use of JavaScript in front-end applications. Students learn the fundamentals of JavaScript and object-orientated programming on the command line (using Node.js as a JavaScript interpreter). Next, students learn to work with objects and JSON, APIs and the DOM and JQuery. Finally, students use advanced programming topics to persist user data, deploying their apps to the web.

Who is this course for?

Aspiring Developers: Often an alum of FEWD and HCD, looking to move on from web design to building web applications.

Designers and Marketers: Add more advanced interactivity to your newsletters and designs

Entrepreneurs: Build an MVP (minimum viable product) using JavaScript

Cost

Free to those who are admitted and adhere to student code of conduct throughout course. (This course is typically valued at 15,000 SAR)

Learn More

Let us know a bit more about you, and a member of the General Assembly Admissions Team will reach out to you to discuss the Misk Academy course offerings and your goals. We will also share a syllabus.